Hi Matt, On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 at 22:49, Matt Sicker <m...@musigma.org> wrote: > So now we come to your question about a factories file. That’s an interesting > idea, though it’s extremely similar to what we’re doing here with > ServiceLoader (though the split between META-INF/services/ files and > module-info.java provides/uses entries is confusing). Moving away from > ServiceLoader to a custom mechanism might be more flexible, though I’m not > very knowledgeable about how Java modules work with them.
I think that `ServiceLoader` is the only standard feature that is supported by both OSGi and JPMS. If we move away from it, we'll need some custom code to support it (or `opens`, etc). I wouldn't go that way. Piotr
